Morettia2 BSN, RN

This board for 1st year nurses saved me from quitting my job numerous times. I came here and still come here to rant, whine, complain, tell how great/horrible my shift was, and mostly for advice from others like me. I was on here every morning when I...

See the thing is....I didn't become cocky, I was sick of being verbally beat down. One can only handle so much insult. You reach a breaking point. And I broke. I had enough, and I wasn't about to be treated like a child. Yes I was there to learn, but...

I have worked at the same hospital for about 5 years. I started out as an Interventional Cardiology RN right out of school. I became one of the Night Shift Charge Nurses and was offered a position as Nurse Manager in the Interventional Unit. At the s...

Hey all. SO My hosp. just started using the MYNX closure device a month or 2 ago. The MD's used to use angioseal, perclose or just send the pt. to my floor with a Sheath for us lovely nurses to pull, which is not my favorite!. Anyway, we had an inser...

I have one...this wasn't a Nurse but a DOCTOR who did this......Here it goes, you guys are going to love this one, it was about 4 years ago..I was probably about 1 year into my nursing career as an RN, I used to work on an Interventional Cardiology u...

OMG I haven't been on this site in a very very long time...I can't believe this post is still a sticky...I can only say, one year ago I posted this...since then it's been well...i am not going to go on a tangent..I have to be up in a few hours for wo...

I work nights, I am far from weak. If I heard a Doc say that, I would fire back with, "well, since youthink we are weak, I would be prepared to expect an increase in pages b/t the hours of 12am-5am. And when you call back I will say, Oh I am sorry I ...

Ok so I have been posting on here for quite a while, and alot of you have read my stickie...it get's better I PROMISE....and I thank you and I hope I have helped or encouraged you to keep up the good work. But I have to share this one, and the only r...

haha thanks..I know it was a long post. And I thank you for reading it!!

god-is-love, when you start out as a new nurse it's like being on mars, kind of. My story is this...I am from the philly burbs. I went to the University of Scranton in 98-2002 and graduated with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and a minor in Sociology. Wh...

HAHAHAHA you don't know how many times I wish I could have said that...hahaha..

I am glad to hear that everything worked out... I am an RN working in an innercity hosp. Every so often we get called off when our census is low. Last week, I was called at about 5:45pm by the day shift charge nurse, to tell me I had PTO for the nigh...

I just wated to tell you, your story sound similiar to mine..I will post more later gotaa go back to work in a few hours but if you ever need to talk just send me a message

Hey guys just got my evaluation for the year, last year I was new so it was a prewritten evaluation..this year I got to score my self, self evaluation before my night shift Nurse Manager gave me what she evaluated about me. Well, let's just say that ...

OMG I work in Newark, NJ and we get the worst of the worst. Low income area where my hosp. is located. The pt's that are admitted to my floor with cardiac problems are so unbearable at times. There was one pt. in particular last week. Great guy, youn...

ok had a pt. last night who needed a new PIV. The day shift RN told me he pulled it out by accident around 5pm...I asked her why she didn't put in a new one..she said no one could get a vein, even the MD. I said wel there is a STAT dose of vanco that...

My fav. place is the hand...you just put that tourniquite on and tap away at the veins in the hand untill you find something. The pinky and the thumb work well for pt's that have crappy veins....but patience is key...just wait, and you can always use...

I can stick the worst veins, start IV's on anyone, code a pt. , pull femoral sheaths, tell you about medications even hae MD's come to me about meds, can read rhythms when other people can't..but if you ask me to park my suv in a tight spot forget ab...

I know those nights..one night I was bit by a pt. thank god she had no teeth, so she just gummed my hand literally..hahah..but she did punch me also. We have the boxing glove mitten restraints, they are so funny looking. But she did get a good crack ...

We pull sheaths on my floor. I work Interventional Cardiology. The ACT has to be I can say that sometimes pt's come with ACT's in the 140's and I wish that the cath lab would have pulled it b/c now the pt's bp is elevated, very elevated and we can't...

So last night was a terrible night..ran around like usual. But I had this pt. who I had the previous night also. She's a Nephro RN and was on my unit for pulm. HTN and eval for lung transplant. So we got to talking the previous night and that's how I...

what makes it hard as a first year nurse is learning the nursing culture and hospital culture and physician culture. Nursing school and clinical prepares you to BE a nurse in the world of nursing, with respect to education, clinical skills and knowle...

just had my first problem with this recently. I was pulled to another floor for the night. I have been on this floor many times before so I knew the nurses. I pulled my 10pm meds from the pyxis. I went to give my pt. 0.5mg of xanax and when I did the...

soo sorry to hear that. My biggest help in anatomy was getting a study group and just drilling the crap put of each other...it's just memorization. another thing is I made a binder of all the slides and pictures for my lab practicals and just kept go...

Dansko's if you can tolerate the "breaking in" period, but once boken in LOVE EM', hence the reason I have 7 pairs in all diff colors and styles, A good stethoscope, the Littman Classic II S.E. I have had for 4 years and it's amazing. I pick up brea...